Is it (google drive) of any use before I delete it?
It didn't ask permission to download and I use Firefox.

I use 3 android devices therefore I use Google a lot - therefore I have Google drive on my PC as well - I store lots of stuff there as it's easier find things rather than have to remember on which machine you put it.

It was downloading and installing the same time as a Flashplayer update.
I'm deleteing because I have network storage.

Then you must have said yes to it. i have never had anything installed with flashplayer i did not want.

Sometimes cloud storage is useful, I use dropbox to store some documents, it allows me to access them where ether I am.
i know you can do that with network storage, but sometimes it don't work.
Of cause I password all my documents.

It was downloading and installing the same time as a Flashplayer update.
I'm deleteing because I have network storage.

I believe if you install Flash for the first time it may come with Google Chrome bundled and that may have been extended to include Google Drive client. Chrome is certainly bundled with some downloads and preselected. You have to be careful to unselect if you don't want it.

I believe if you install Flash for the first time it may come with Google Chrome bundled and that may have been extended to include Google Drive client. Chrome is certainly bundled with some downloads and preselected. You have to be careful to unselect if you don't want it.

It is about time that was stopped and these items was unselected as default, also people should bloody look at what they are doing

When you start paying for software then you can start demanding but until then either look at what you install, don't bother using/un-install/disable, I don't see what the issue is to be honest.

I do pay for a lot of my software. i agree people should look at what they are installing, but they don't and that is where the problems starts. The amount of times in the past I have had to get rid of toolbars and other stuff on other peoples machines that they have installed and not realised. Even if not unselected by default sometimes it could be made clearer.
Not sure what you mean about uninstalling or disabling, but if you install something you did not want to install then you got every right to uninstall it.

As for flash, It have been a while since I installed flash from scratch, so I have not sure what extras it got. I think I remember chrome, but not google Drive, but then Google drive may not have been available then.

As I said the only cloud storage I use is drop box, so I got their client on my computer. i think I got 25Gb with MS, but i have never used it.

Actually, vendors should be able to package things up as they like, whether the customer is paying for it or not.

The customer should be able to criticise the vendor's policy, whether the customer is paying for it or not.

If the vendor doesn't change the customer has the right to seek out alternative vendors or become a vendor themselves.

They can of course criticise free software but remember, said software has to be paid for somewhere along the line.

I've paid for the likes of Adobe Master Collection, Office, Corel Draw and more and will have a knock if they are in the wrong but I really don't see why people get so fixated on the likes of Google and other free software....don't like it then don't use it and stop droning on about it; there are always alternatives.

They can of course criticise free software but remember, said software has to be paid for somewhere along the line.

I got nothing against stuff being bundled into free software, but sometimes it is not made clear.

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I've paid for the likes of Adobe Master Collection, Office, Corel Draw and more and will have a knock if they are in the wrong

Same here, premier, i admit it been while as I never took to it, photoshop.
Office, but again a while back, office 2000.
After effects, not so long ago and Vegas 10.
I also paid for some smaller software as well, like my email client and a few weeks ago, comodo.

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but I really don't see why people get so fixated on the likes of Google and other free software....don't like it then don't use it and stop droning on about it; there are always alternatives.

The problem is as i said above that some things are not made clear.
Google is a different thing, they just seems to think that people want to have them all over their computers and many times you have no idea what Google sticks on, even if you never use Google. Of cause Google is not the only company that does it.

Google Drive in conjuction with Google Docs is just awesome for someone who writes a lot like myself. I can just pick up my phone/tablet/laptop/work PC and carry on writing from where exactly I left off and everything is synced perfectly.

I am exclusivly using Google Drive now, and we've even started using it in the work place. It's also been very reliable, which of course is a huge bonus!

Tough. It's their product. It's up to [or should be] up to them how they package it. You should be free to criticise, boycott, campaign, of course.

if you pay for software, certainly high end software then nothing else should be added unless they are giving you another bit of software for free and even then, it should not install unless you want it to install.

When ever I install anything I always use custom, then at least then I have a chance to look at waht is being installed and where.

It may be their product, but this is my computer, I got every right to stop stuff being installed unless it needs to be installed for the software to work.

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Like you say in your subsequent post if it's made clear what you're getting that's fine. In the Flash download it is made clear.

As i have also said; I have not installed flash from scratch for a while, so i can't really remember if it was clear or not. I think it asked to install chrome and that was it.

Google Drive in conjuction with Google Docs is just awesome for someone who writes a lot like myself. I can just pick up my phone/tablet/laptop/work PC and carry on writing from where exactly I left off and everything is synced perfectly.

I am exclusivly using Google Drive now, and we've even started using it in the work place. It's also been very reliable, which of course is a huge bonus!

Mark

I don't use Google Docs, google drive, I certainly don't sync anything from my computer to any google product or my phone apart from contacts.

I use google calender, for bill reminders more than anything else, Gmail only for contacts and that is it, I don't even use Google for searching.